I haven’t posted about the Twitter and blog
war which broke out over a clip of Mike Tyson trash talking
Sarah Palin in very explicit and violent sexual ways, although I
did spotlight Dan Riehl’s post about it as
Post of the Day.

I expect cheap shots at Sarah Palin from Politico. It’s
why Politico’s news operation has lost much of its credibility
with me. Witness the photo Politico decided to run
accompanying a hit piece on Palin — not exactly subtle
editorializing of what barely purports to be a news story.

In the aftermath of the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in
Egypt, Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post penned a meme which
has become common among the mainstream media and left-blogosphere,
that
The GOP loves freedom, but not for Egypt:

This is a follow up to my
earlier post about the findings by a social psychlogist that
there is a “statistically impossible” skew in the percentages of
social psychologists who self-identify as liberal and conservative,
reflecting a pervasive bias against conservatives throughout the
social sciences.

Thanks to reader James for the link to this chart by
Nate Silver, showing where Silver believes various potential
Republian candidates fall on a sliding scale of insider/outsider
and conservative/moderate: